Day 2 | Rare Books & Historical Documents from the Estate of Fred Bentley, Sr.

The titles include "The assertions of a secessionist. From the speech of A.H. Stephens, of Georgia", November 14th, 1860, paperback.8 p.p., printe...

Journal of the Public and Secret Proceedings of the Convention of the People of Georgia, Held in Milledgeville and Savannah in 1861. Together with...

Exceptional photo album containing CDVs of George Washington, Martha Washington, the Washington family, the Lincoln family, Abraham Lincoln (2), S...

Address of His Excellency John A. Andrew, to the Legislature of Massachusetts, Together with Accompanying Documents. January 8, 1864. Complete wit...

A Constitutional View of the Late War Between the States; It's Causes, Character, Conduct, and Results. Presented in a Series of Colloquies at Lib...

Political Debates Between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen Douglas, In the Celebrated Campaign of 1858, in Illinois. Published 1860 in Columb...

The Gettysburg Address printed the next day after the Gettysburg National Cemetery was dedicated and the address read aloud by Lincoln. A very wel...

Two volume set of Abraham Lincoln 1809-1858 by Albert Beveridge. Published 1928 by Houghton Mifflin. Fifth impression. Includes a signed letter fr...

Trial Of the Conspirators for the Assassination of President Lincoln, An Argument of John A. Bingham, Special Judge Advocate, In Reply to the Argu...

One of Abraham Lincoln's best know speeches which was presented at the Illinois Great Western railroad depot on February 11, 1861, the same day he...

The Emancipation Proclamation was put to force on January 1, 1863 and printed in the New York Herald with this January 3, 1863 edition being a ver...

Two double volume sets of Civil War biographies: Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Published 1885 by Charles Webster. First trade edition Memoirs of...

Niles National Register, March 20, 1841. A very important issue, as an inside page has: "The Case of the Amistad" being the report of the Supreme ...

Bound set of Harper's Weekly Newsmagazine #366-406. From January 2nd through October 8, 1864. Many stories and illustrations about the Civil War. ...

Ten volumes of Harper's Magazine, containing the following volumes: Volume 4: 1851-1852, Volume 5: 1852, Volume 8: 1853-1854, Volume 10: 1854-1855...

William McKinley (January 29, 1843-September 14, 1901) TLS to John M Stahl. Letter dated 4 September 1896. In this typed and personally signed let...

A document signed by J. Edgar Thomson and dated November 14th, 1870. J. Edgar Thomson was then serving as President of the Columbia Port Deposit R...

The Liberator full copy with great details of the upcoming Emancipation to start Jan 1, 1863. Articles and speech about what is going to occur and...

Extrait du journal d'un officier de la marine dr l'escadre de m le Comte D'estaing,1st edition, 1st issue. Engraved portrait bound in modern moroc...

Acts Passed at the First Session of the Tenth Congress of the United States, published 1809 and appears to have the original green paper cover. Wi...

Nice grouping of 10 historic American newspapers and magazines, starting with the July 11, 1835 issue of the Boston Evening Gazette on to the Nati...

Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb (1876-1944), was an American author, humorist, editor and columnist who wrote for the New York World, and was known as the h...

Members of the Society of the Cincinnati, Original. Hereditary, and Honorary with a Brief Account of the Society's History and Aims by William Stu...

"A Vision for America" speech given and signed by President Gerald Ford in a speech to the Republican Party on July 14, 1980. Numbered 259 of 500 ...

Nice set of 6 different American school ink drawings of locations in the eastern US which include: the cemetery near barracks, St. Augustine; a vi...

Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856-February 3, 1924), typed 2 page letter on stationary dated November 15, 1913, in bright blue ink with a dark bro...

This is the Supreme Court case Citizens Against Rent Control v. City of Berkeley 454 U.S. 290 signed by Chief Justice Warren Burger (1907-1995), w...

Leonidas Polk (1838-1864), signed letter in his hand. ALS, as bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana and founder of the Protestant Episcopal...

Complete set of bound newspapers dated February 10, 1826 through December 14th, 1827, included and most notable is the announcement of the death o...

Seventeen volume complete set of the Library of Southern Literature. Published 1909 by Martin and Hoyt. Set has one volume as a Supplement. Books ...

American Scenery by N.P. Willis and Illustrated in a Series of Views by W.H. Bartlett. Published 1840 by George Virtue, London. 1 volume. Contains...

The Balance and Columbian Repository, June 16,1807, #24 volume VI. Pages 189-191. Referencing Aaron Burr, (1756-1836). Burr traveled west to the A...

Three volume set titled American Ornithology; or, The Natural History of The Birds of the United States by Alexander Wilson; with a Continuation b...

Volume 1 of The Quadrupeds of North America by John James Audubon, and The Rev. John Bachman. Published 1851, V.G. Audubon. The prospectus for thi...

The Birds of America by John James Audubon. Published 1937 by Macmillan. Numbered 2185 of 2500 copies printed. Book has a cloth binding with marbl...

2vol. John James Audubon The Original Watercolor Paintings for Birds of America. Published 1966 by American Heritage. Books have a tan cloth bindi...

The Audubon Society Baby Elephant Folio of Audubon's Birds of America by Roger Tory Peterson and Virginia Marie Peterson. Special Edition signed b...

A Synopsis of The Birds of North America by John James Audubon. Printed 1839, Adam and Charles Black, Edinburgh. Longman, Rees, Brown, Green, and ...

Two volume set, A Sketch of the Botany of South Carolina and Georgia in Two Volumes by Stephen Elliott (1771-1830). Published 1821 by J.R. Schenck...

Fourteen volume set of Beaux and Belles of England finely bound Edition Deluxe limited to 1000 copies, this being 792. Published by The Grolier So...

Fifteen volume complete set of the Encyclopedia of World Art. Published 1959 by McGraw Hill Book Company. Volumes contain many illustrations. Blue...

Eight volume set of Historical Collections of Private Passages of State, of Weighty Matters in Law, of Remarkable Proceedings in Five Parliaments,...

Four volumes of St. Nicholas: An Illustrated Magazine For Young Folks Conducted by Mary Mapes Dodge. Published in the late 1880s to early 1890s by...

Punch Magazine 1905-1906. Published at that time by The Whitefriars Press. Bound in red leather with gilt titling and decoration on the spine. A n...

A set of 4 volumes of Blackwood's Magazine with the following volumes: Volume IV: October 1818 - March 1819, Volume VII: April 1820 - September 18...

Leather bound sammelband containing works by Thomas Paine. Many works published at different times have been collected into one volume. Book is fu...

Five volume set of Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers Edited by George Williamson and published 1909-1910. A new edition with numerous i...

A fore-edge painted book of A Philosophical Enquiry Into The Origin Of Our Ideas Of The Sublime and Beautiful. With An Introductory Discourse Conc...

Memoires de Paul Jones, ou il expose ses principaux services, et rappelle ce qui lui st arrive de plus remarquable pendant le cours de la revoluti...

The Married Beau: or, The Curious Impertinent, a Comedy Acted at the Theatre-Royal by Their Majesties Servants. Written by Mr. Crowne. Published 1...

The Complete Works of John Bunyan with an Introduction by Rev. John P. Gulliver, D.D. Printed 1873 by Bradley, Garretson, Philadelphia. Book featu...

Volumes 1 through 8 of The Spectator. Six of the volumes are bound similarly and the last 2 are bound similarly. Various editions of The Spectator...

Two volume set of The Eloquence of the British Senate; or, Select Specimens From The Speeches of the Most Distinguished Parliamentary Speakers, Fr...

A Star in the West; or, A Humble Attempt to Discover The Long Lost Ten Tribes of Israel by Elias Boudinot. Published 1816 by D. Fenton, S. Hutchin...

Three volumes of bound magazines: Cornhill Magazine, Volume IX, January to June 1864. Published 1864 by Smith, Elder. Bound in leather with marble...

Two volumes of speeches, essays and poems from the Lotos Club of New York: Lotos Leaves: Original Stories, Essays and Poems. By multiple authors i...

Two volumes of the bound magazine Our Young Folks for Boys and Girls. Edited by J.T. Trowbridge, Gail Hamilton, and Lucy Larcom. Published by Tick...

History of the Big Bonanza: An Authentic Account of the Discovery, History, and Working of the World Renowned Comstock Silver Lode of Nevada, Incl...

A three volume complete set of Greyslaer: A Romance of the Mohawk by C.F. Hoffman. Published 1840 by Richard Bentley. First edition. Books have be...

The Lincolns in Chicago by Blaine Brooks Gernon. Monograph published 1934 by Ancarthe Publishers. Signed by the author on the front free end paper...